DIORAMAS Hiroshi Sugimoto

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Dioramas is the definitive collection of Hiroshi Sugimoto's first and most iconic series, a project that has spanned over 40 years. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the work that launched Sugimoto’s international career, enriched with newer additions from 2012.

In 1974, inspired by the elaborate displays at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Sugimoto discovered that through the camera's lens, artificial models could appear more vivid and convincing than reality itself. By meticulously framing these taxidermy scenes to exclude all signs of museum artifice—labels, reflections, and barriers—he blurs the line between fiction and reality, fundamentally challenging the "truth" of the photographic medium.

A profound exploration of Sugimoto’s recurring theme of "fossilizing time," this series narrates the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. It remains a sharp inquiry into the nature of visual perception and the essence of photography. This book marks the brilliant first volume in a planned five-book series dedicated to Sugimoto’s major bodies of work.